Privacy Policy of lottos.com.au


Online Privacy Policy

This online Privacy Policy is provided to make you aware of how we collect, use and manage information of visitors to the lottos.com.au competitions website, known as an Internet Web Site (IWS). The Publisher views the personal privacy of users as an important issue, and we are committed to maintaining the security of personal information provided to us by users in accessing our IWS. This policy forms part of the Terms of Service of the IWS, and describes how we treat personal information that we receive through your use of our IWS.

Definitions

Lottos Internet Design (trading as lottos.com.au) ABN 39 285 612 130 ("the Publisher").

"The Publisher", "we" "us" and "our" means the Publisher.

"IWS" refers to the Internet Web Site lottos.com.au.

"User/s", "you" and "your" refers to users of, and subscribers to the IWS.

"Hyperlink" means any mechanism of providing a link from one location on the Internet (or a web page) to another location on the Internet (or a different web page, or a different location on the same web page), and includes any mechanism for linking to, or providing access to, files via the Internet.

"Intellectual Property" means all intellectual property rights as defined by Article 2 of the World Intellectual Property Organisation Convention of 1967, in any inventions, designs, trademarks, trade names, circuit layouts, plant varieties, business and domain names, logos and get-up, confidential information, matter, materials or works accessible on or via the Publisher web sites.

"Internet Services" means the supply of Goods and Services by the Publisher including without limitation access to the Publishers website at www.lottos.com.au and to anything on the Publishers website.

What Information Do We Collect and How Is It Used?

We collect the following information from visitors to our IWS: referring domain name, IP address, information regarding what pages are accessed, information volunteered by you, such as survey information, email address, and your preferred means of communication. We collect and log this information for statistical purposes or for the purpose of communicating with you if you have requested this.

We will also collect additional information in relation to subscribers as set out under the heading "Information Collected during Subscription", and that additional information will be used by us for accounting and subscriber database management purposes and such information will be provided as necessary to financial institutions. We may also use this information in order to provide you with a personalised experience when you visit our IWS. Through the use of a "cookie" (see under "Cookies"), we can record the pages you visit and the information you require. Through analysis of these records, we can take steps to provide you with an improved service when you revisit our IWS.

Other than as stated in the preceding paragraphs, no attempt is made to identify users or their browsing activities except in the event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect logs, or where we believe it is required to collect and produce relevant electronic documentation to use and disclose your personal information to fulfil its obligations to any third parties, including statutory organisations under local law and regulatory bodies.

We will only use and disclose your personal information if necessary to protect any copyright or intellectual property in any material on our IWS, or if it is necessary to enforce our IWS forum rules, or to identify the end of trial periods for forum members.

Information Collected during Subscription

In the process of subscription by organisations or individuals, the following information may be required and used by us:

  • member user name (required for login purposes)
  • email address (required for communication such as password and subscription details)

Subscription will enable you to access our online forum with Premium membership. We use an approved Payment Gateway (PayPal) in conjunction with St George Bank (owned by Westpac). These external web sites may require the following information:

  • payment details, such as credit card or bank account details (not stored by lottos.com.au)
  • real name data (not stored by lottos.com.au)

Whilst we may use your subscription details to personalise your web experience, we will not make membership details available to external parties except as indicated in this Privacy Policy.

Links to Third Party Sites

Our IWS contains links to external websites. We encourage you to review the privacy and security policies of any externally linked websites that may be accessed through our IWS. We assume no responsibility or liability for the information, collection and disclosure practices of any sites that a user can access through our IWS. Please check the privacy policies of external websites before you submit any personal data to them.

We may use third-party advertisers to deliver advertisements to your web browser whilst you are viewing our IWS. We accept no responsibility for any information collected by third-party advertisers once you click on an advertisement and leave our IWS.

Except as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information with any individual or organisation that is not associated with the Publisher.

Can I Change or Delete Information?

All forum members and newsletter subscribers have the right to access or update personal data that they have submitted through the IWS by updating their profile details in the case of forum members and newsletter subscribers can choose to unsubscribe from mailing lists by following the instructions on how to unsubscribe provided in all our newsletter communications.

Children's Online Privacy Protection

Our IWS is directed towards adult users. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. Children under the age of 13 should not use our IWS or submit information to us.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that web sites may write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user ID, that the web site uses to track the pages you have visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you personally supply. A cookie cannot read other data off your hard disk.

Our IWS uses cookies to track user traffic patterns and to better serve you when you revisit our web site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, providing you with the opportunity to either accept or reject it. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them of in your browser. However, correct and full web site functionality often requires the use of cookies.

Security

We take all reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from loss, unauthorised access, destruction, misuse, modification or disclosure as far as is permissible under law, but we accept no responsibility for any unauthorised access gained to any of your personal information in our possession.

Any payment transaction information will be encrypted through an external Payment Gateway and used solely to process the transaction.

Where we have given you a password which enables you to access certain parts of the IWS, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of your data in transmission to the IWS. Transmission is at your own risk.

Updating this Privacy Policy

As the content of this Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time we suggest that you return to our IWS on a regular basis and carefully read the information provided.


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